Although there are many types of outdoor sports, professional outdoor sports clothing such as assault suits are mainly for mountaineering, skiing and other high-cold sports. In addition to the physical and skill requirements of the participants, outdoor sports also require outdoor clothing that can adapt to harsh weather and complex geographical environments to ensure the personal safety of the athletes. There are many types of outdoor sports. What characteristics should customized outdoor sports clothing have?
1. Warmth retention:
Although warmth retention is closely related to fabric thickness, outdoor sports do not allow clothing to be too heavy. Therefore, it must be both warm and lightweight to meet the special requirements of customized outdoor sports clothing.
A common method is to add special ceramic powders containing chromium oxide, magnesium oxide, zirconium oxide, etc. to the spinning solution of polyester and other synthetic fibers, especially nano-scale fine ceramic powders, which can absorb visible light such as sunlight and convert it into heat energy. , and can also reflect far-infrared rays emitted by the human body itself.
Therefore, it has excellent thermal insulation and heat storage properties. Of course, far-infrared ceramic powder, adhesive and cross-linking agent can also be formulated as a finishing agent, and the woven fabric can be coated, and then dried and baked to make the nano-ceramic powder adhere to the fabric surface and yarns. between. This finishing agent emits far-infrared rays with a wavelength of 8-14 μm, and also has health-care functions such as antibacterial, deodorizing, and promoting blood circulation.
In addition, based on the principle of bionics and referring to the structure of polar bear hair, the polyester fiber is made into a porous hollow shape inside, so that the fiber contains a large amount of stagnant air, and the outside is made into a spiral curl shape to maintain fluffiness, all of which can ensure a light texture. It has a good thermal insulation effect. Of course, making clothes or even fabrics into double or even triple layers to increase the stagnant air layer is also one of the traditional measures to keep warm.
2. Waterproof and breathable:
Sports will emit a lot of sweat, and it is inevitable to encounter wind and rain outdoors. This is a contradiction in itself: it must be able to prevent rain and snow from being soaked, and it must be able to discharge the sweat emitted by the body in a timely manner. Fortunately, the human body emits water vapor in a single molecule state, while rain and snow are liquid water droplets in an aggregated state. Their volumes are very different.
In addition, liquid water has a characteristic called surface tension, which is the characteristic of gathering its own volume. The water we see on the lotus leaf is in the form of granular water drops rather than flat water stains. This is Because there is a layer of waxy hair tissue on the surface of the lotus leaf, water droplets cannot spread and penetrate on this layer of waxy hairs due to surface tension. If you dissolve a drop of detergent or washing powder into water beads, the water beads will immediately disintegrate and spread out on the lotus leaf because the detergent can greatly reduce the surface tension of the liquid.
The above is an introduction to the characteristics of customized outdoor sportswear. Customized outdoor sportswear represents the new cutting-edge technology in the development of today’s textile science. It is also a seemingly inconspicuous mountaineering jacket or jacket that can easily cost hundreds, thousands or even thousands. Yuan is an important reason (of course, factors such as brand value and functional styles are not excluded). Therefore, as far as the current science and technology is concerned, the overall performance of customized outdoor sportswear is still difficult to achieve perfection in all aspects.
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